Weekend Edition Saturday, March 23, 2013 $1 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com 2013 Baseball & Rochester Invite Softball Preview Cody Triana Sweeps Hurdles / Sports 5 / Inside Mother of Murdered Toddler Charged Prosecutors Allege Centralia Woman’s Negligence Led to Her 2-Year-Old Daughter’s Death Last May By Kyle Spurr and Stephanie Schendel appearance Friday afternoon in James M. Reeder, was sentenced ecution had plans to charge He-
[email protected] Lewis County Superior Court. to serve life in prison with a pos- upel, but waited until Reeder’s Becky Heupel, 30, pleaded sibility of parole after 37 years. case came to a close.
[email protected] not guilty to the second-degree Reeder pleaded guilty to rape, as- “She is a victim too in the The mother of the 2-year-old mistreatment charge. sault and murder charges earlier sense that she lost her child,” girl who died last May as a re- Heupel will appear again in this year. Prosecutors allege that Meyer said. “We wanted to wait sult of being sexually and physi- Superior Court on April 11 for a prior to the child’s death, she was until after (Reeder’s) conviction.” cally tortured at the hands of the pretrial hearing. “systematically tortured” both Second-degree criminal Centralia woman’s boyfriend A trial date was set for June 10. physically and sexually. mistreatment alleges that a par- ent recklessly created an immi- Becky Heupel Koralynn Fister was charged with criminal mis- Her court appearance came Lewis County Prosecutor charged with killed by Heupel’s treatment during a brief court two weeks after her ex-boyfriend, Jonathan Meyer said the pros- please see CHARGED, page Main 12 mistreatment boyfriend Father Faces Charges for More Paws on the Ground Class Fund Theft CHARGED: The Husband of Woman in Charge of W.F.